Blowhard, Esq. writes:
- Why are progressives abandoning due process?
- A Nobel judge thinks writing programs are killing Western literature.
- Shorter New Yorker: “Oh dear, what if this accessible and fun book leads kids to more accessible and fun books instead of the difficult books I, as their better, want them to read???”
- The dark side of artisanal ice.
- How do those famous New York delis stay in business? Now I know why the sides at 2nd Ave. Deli are $7+.
- I really like the veggies at Chipotle. Good to know all you need to make them at home is oregano.
- Frank Gehry thinks 98% of architecture being built today is “pure shit.” Here’s his latest “masterpiece,” just opened in Paris. An eagle-eye view of the Trocadero.
- France’s minister of culture hasn’t read a novel in two years.
- I think most Kubrick nuts will watch this documentary and think it just adds to his mythos, his genius, but the dude was clearly some kind of crazy person. Not dangerously crazy, but bonkers nonetheless. One example: he paid a photographer to spend a year taking over 30,000 photographs (in the days before digital!) all over southwest England for use as art direction research for EYES WIDE SHUT. His obsessive hoarding, which reminded me of Vivian Maier, certainly explains why his films got less frequent.
- How to deal with shithead lawyers.
- Emily Ratajkowski Du Jour
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
Uncouth Reflections 
I’m not terribly surprised that Kubrick collected stuff. Artists collect stuff that might be useful for their art one day. Seems to me at worst an exaggeration of a tendency that most artists have.
Though he probably should have spent more time making actual films than planning and collecting material for them.
Notice as well how neat and organized his hoarding was.
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Sure, it was neat and organized b/c he could pay others to do it. Collecting hundreds (thousands?) of pictures of doorways for a single shot in a movie is a little extreme, don’t you think?
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I fail to see how that artisanal ice would be any better than the ice in grocery / corner store-bought bags of ice cubes, which are similarly frozen in a manner to not trap air bubbles, and which have the same advantage of no freezer taste (unless you don’t use them all up soon enough, and don’t store them in such a way as to minimize that, e.g. in Tupperware containers, tightly sealed, still in the bag, twisted and tied closed).
The only advantage is that the bigger chunks would melt more slowly, but that also means they won’t cool your drink as quickly.
But hey, if Mother Jones hates it, I’m for it. 🙂
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What stuck in my head from EWS was the Park Ave doctor getting home and cracking open a Bud can like a truck driver. That didn’t seem right. I see that Felix Salmon noticed the same thing. I may have to rethink this.
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